Contracts
DHSC buys 16,000 iPhones for Test and Trace scheme
Department spends £4m on deal with Jigsaw24
DfE laptops for home-schooling found to contain malware
Government says a ‘small number’ of machines are affected by what users say is a worm that...
Ageing tech has added £50m to HMRC costs during pandemic, report finds
Legacy IT has accounted for 80% of additional expense, according to PAC
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Navy to deploy £25m autonomous minesweepers
Technology is designed to ‘detect and destroy’
DWP spends £5m to manage applications
Department invests in contract to deliver ‘full-stack visibility’
Arrest info on 150,000 people accidentally deleted from police database
Minister says data was wiped during ‘standard housekeeping process’
NHS Digital spends £8m on four deals to support ‘Covid-19 rapid response’
Quartet of contracts awarded last month
Government consults with broadband firms on Huawei alternatives
Ministers seek to understand current use of vendor’s kit
Government spends £87m on extra 460,000 laptops to support remote learning
Procurement documents show DfE awarded another deal to Computacenter in November
Major IT firms added to cross-government strategic supplier list
Computacenter and AWS have, in the last 12 months, both been added to the list of the government’s foremost suppliers
Cheshire signs long-term Microsoft cloud partner in £35m deal
Local authorities ink six-year contract
BT wins £18m deal to provide Buckinghamshire public sector network
Telco appointed to five-year contract
The biggest stories of 2020 – part two
PublicTechnology completes our round-up of the most read and significant stories of 2020
IPA head on working to ensure major-project success during a challenging year
Nick Smallwood discusses the key areas of focus needed for government to deliver transformation schemes
The biggest stories of 2020 – part one
PublicTechnology rounds up the most-read and significant stories we covered this year
The four (non-coronavirus) public sector tech trends that will define 2021
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out the big issues that might shape the year ahead. Apart from that one.
Cabinet Office to blacklist underperforming outsourcers under new procurement rules
Department announces plan to punish firms that fail to deliver on contractual criteria
Scottish Government signs £400m BT deal to boost islands’ broadband
Scottish Government signs £400m BT deal to boost islands’ broadband
NAO finds Test and Trace outsourcing saw ‘substantial resources spent on staff providing minimal services’
Call-handlers were unoccupied half the time, auditors’ report found
Home Office renegotiates £100m AWS deal
Department re-signs contract under terms of new MoU
Plans for Crown Consultancy unit ‘watered down’, report claims
Unit will reportedly advise on use of external firms rather than replace them
Home Office supplier spending on immigration casework tool nears £30m
Accenture wins two more contracts totalling £5m-plus
DHSC signs £2m six-month deal to improve ability to ‘respond to recover from a cyberattack’
Health department awards security design and architecture contract through G-Cloud framework
Analysis: how has coronavirus impacted local government IT spending?
PublicTechnology analysis of government data shows that the volume and value of IT and digital services contracts in the local government sector has been hit this year